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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.009117508232505234
Coordinates
RA 96.1497° · Dec -22.8383°
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Key facts

Right ascension
06h 25m 39s
Declination
-22° 51’ 13”
Type
Spiral (SAbc)

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Canis Major
Distance from Earth
40.78
Image
NGC 2223 DSS.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 18978
redshift
0.009076
radial velocity
2716
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1835-01-23
apparent magnitude
8.849
galaxy morphological type
SBbc
right ascension
96.1495208
declination
-22.8382500
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 2223
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2223 is a spiral galaxy located 105.9 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major.

The galaxy was host to a supernova that was named SN 1993K.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2223” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.